Bogdan Tudorache

NPP Kozloduy’s sixth block was shut down from the country’s energy system after the electrical protection was triggered, the plant said.

It happened just before 14:00.

All systems of the block have worked according to the design algorithms, the company states. At the moment, the Nuclear Power Plant teams remove the causes of electrical protection, according to Novinite. Once the equipment is operational, the sixth block will be included in the power system.

This is the second such incident occurring in Kozloduy in less than a week. Bulgarian nuclear power plant Kozloduy has shut down one of its two 1,000 megawatt units last week after a protection system was activated at the unit’s generator.

The shutdown was triggered because of an anomaly in conventional power generation equipment and not a fault in the plant’s nuclear reactor. There is no danger of any radioactive contamination, the head of the Nuclear Regulatory Agency, Lachezar Kostov, told Reuters.

Also, Bulatom experts quoted by Novinite say that there are serious differences between the reactors at the Chernobyl plant where there was a huge explosion, and those in Kozloduy. They are convinced that the reactors at Kozloduy, a type of WWER, are better protected than those at the Chernobyl plant.